As some of you may know, I've just barely started the process of transitioning, and have been looking for resources related to this. I've found some pretty great ones, especially Trans Academy (which I somehow knew about from when I was "totally cis"), but most of the resources I've found seem a little scattered and I'd love to have some kind of a guide that may even include harder to find "DIY" tips that other groups might not address. Since there doesn't seem to be anything out there (to my knowledge) that includes all of the useful info someone who's starting out might need, I was thinking that this could be a good place to start such a project. So I had some questions:
- Do you think this is a good or bad idea? and why?
- What form should this take? Someone mentioned cryptpad.fr to me, and it seems ideal for what I had in mind, which is something like an easy-to-navigate wiki with contents and search, and if possible a list of sources/links for the info it contains. I'd love to hear other suggestions if you have them, though. Maybe eventually a website could work once a lot of the info has been fleshed out.
- What should be the scope of the guide? I was initially thinking the focus should be on trans (masc/femme) and NB identities, but should it be expanded to include a much larger group?
- What are potential legal issues, if any, with putting such a guide out there and what would be the best way to deal with that?
- What would be the best way to collaborate on this? Should there be stuff like approval, version control, etc?
- Is there anything else I'm missing here that you'd like to talk about?
This was just something I was thinking about, and I thought I'd make a post to see what others think, but please feel free to give honest feedback on whether or not this would be a good idea or if it could even work. Thanks!
Heres an archive link to the r/transdiy wiki
https://archive.md/gDgj1
Heres an archive link for the r/transwiki wiki
https://archive.md/OzyAk
here's a sweet site that was made by someone local to me https://trans.au/, and i know theres other local transgender subreddits
I find cryptpad frustratingly inaccessible, especially if on mobile, a pdf saved to a clouddrive would almost be better, i know you can do editable .txt files on megadrive, oh standard notes is another one, has a good android app too and can run in browser
I know that there were some places in the usa with potential rules about sharing stuff like this, hexbear code of conduct includes a dont get yourself arrested, dont get anyone else arrested, I'd wanna check in with admins cause ianal (lol)
I'd like to see this space have more people asking questions and talking through transition stuff but its kinda a doxxing risk to get super personal i dunno
there's enough darn trans-gender communists on this site we ought to know everything, but also keep in mind this information does exist, so dont rush off to reinvent the wheel
These are some fantastic resources. Thank you! There's probably a lot more stuff like this out there that I'm just not aware of and need to find. In the meantime either way I plan to collect and compile as much of it as I can.